How to serialize/deserialize a Snoowrap or Listing?

I’m using Snoowrap in a Redux application. I’d love to be able to use redux-persist, but Snoowrap’s objects are not plain-old-JavaScript-objects, so they won’t work with redux-persist. So I have two related questions:

1. Is there a way to serialize a Snoowrap constructed via Snoowrap.fromAuthCode so that I can reconstruct that object later on?

2. The same question as (1), but with instances of Listing.

Right now I have to put Listings in my Redux store, and thus my Redux store cannot be serialized into localStorage-friendly form. If instead of putting a Listing in a store, I store an object that I can dynamically convert into a Listing when (for example) I want to fetch more data, then I’d be a happy camper.

[not-an-aardvark]

Currently, you can (kind of) serialize a Snoowrap, but you can’t serialize a Listing. I agree that it would be useful to have a way to do this.

(Admittedly annoying) way to serialize a snoowrap in the current version:

const auth = {
  clientId: r.clientId,
  clientSecret: r.clientSecret,
  refreshToken: r.refreshToken,
  // this is all you need for instances from Snoowrap.fromAuthCode in a browser.
  // for snoowraps created with other means, you might also need:
  // userAgent, accessToken, username, password
};

const config = r.config();

// store auth and config somewhere

// later:

const newInstance = new snoowrap(auth);
newInstance.config(config);

[not-an-aardvark]

This issue is about serializing snoowrap instances themselves, not reddit content objects created by snoowrap.

It’s true that you can call JSON.stringify on Listing instances, but that won’t preserve some metadata needed to reconstruct them (e.g. the URL for fetching more items).